What kind of meat?

brookeelliott08

Posted 10/17/2013

So LO (little one) has been on solids since 4 months. She does great on them. I know at 6 months is when you can start introducing meats. I have heard (& smelled) how horrible the store bought baby food meat is. I make all of her other baby food anyways so I was planning on making her meat as well...but I am kinda at a loss as to where to start. I want to do purees I am, personally, not comfortable with the BLW (baby-led weaning) idea AT ALL! So that is out of the question...I just don't think my magic bullet would be able to shred it up finely enough.....

Ok. It sounds gross. But we do the store bought ones and mix them 50/50 with a runnier fruit like peaches. Reason I did start is because our pedi said lo was most likely not getting enough iron (I'm on the verg on being aniemic, but iron pill make me sick)

Our ped told us to start on white meat from 7 months. About 10-20gr a day. Either fish or chicken or both. Steamed and pureed and mixed with any veggies lo is having that day. We use beaba's baby cook. I don't know if it exists in US. It steam cooks everything and than mixes it to puree. If you don't have a strong mixer I thing really well cooked any white fish is very easy to puree. And I am guessing chicken fillet should be the same. He specifically said no red meat until later like 9-10 months. Hope this helps.

I skipped puréed meats and just waited until about 9 months and did tiny little pieces (like pea size) of salmon, chicken, lean steak....she loved it at and did well with it. My pediatrician thought it was the right time.

We only did puréed meat with ODD a handful of times (she hated it) and we just introduced pea sized portions at around 7-8 months old...so you could just wait another month or so and introduce it then.

And our occupational therapist actually encouraged us to not make the purées too smooth, he said introducing them to chunkier textures at this age was better for long term texture "tolerance" or whatnot. He also said to expect some gagging with those textures as well but that it was normal. So you could try pureeing the meat and offering it even if it's not finely puréed.

Well none of the food I make is a super smooth puree. Meagrenee-The reason the puree is important to me is because I am terrified for her choking...& meat is a lot drier than fruits/veggies that she is use to now anyways so she is probably going to gag anyways. I am just more comfortable starting with a puree, even if we wait another month or so to start I want to start with a puree. My pedi recommended startring meat at 6-7 months.

trying4years- We were told no fish until at least 18 months...we are at 20 months with DD (dear daughter) and do not plan to start

On the actual subject, I waited until DD (dear daughter) could handle Stage 3's for meats for the most part. But when we did stage 2 meats we tried the ones already mixed with fruits because the ones not mixed smell bad like you said.

Just add more formula to it when you're making it then, it should be fine. I believe I used like 8oz of BM to purée one chicken breast, it was insane how much was necessary to get it to a decent consistency, and I had to thin it out even more after thawing it as well.

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